{"product_id":"the-limits-of-eroticism-in-post-petrarchan-narrative-conditional-pleasure-from-spenser-to-marvell-cambridge-studies-in-renaissance-literature-and-culture-series-number-29-0521034698","title":"The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative: Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 29)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521034698\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Stephens, Dorothy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poet Petrarch imagined that the hopeless but pure love of a woman could lead a man to heaven. In sixteenth-century England Edmund Spenser wrote poetry in the petrarchan tradition while heightening its dilemmas--flirting with a very different kind of feminine image. Dorothy Stephens shows that this flirtation emerges only in conditional language and situations, and that the eroticism the reader feels often belies a narrator's insistence that it is illusory. She goes on to look at responses to Spenser's eroticism among male and female writers in the seventeenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51939572351264,"sku":"NEW0521034698","price":45.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-limits-of-eroticism-in-post-petrarchan-narrative-conditional-pleasure-from-spenser-to-marvell-cambridge-studies-in-renaissance-literature-and-culture-series-number-29-0521034698","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}